Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Living by the sword, however, also means dying by the sword. A smart Husky counterattack worked to perfection, and the lead was again two goals with only 15 minutes left...
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...country in just two months. Last week they pressed their offensive into Kigali and the southwest, relentlessly shelling Rwandan army positions and closing in on the seat of the interim government in Gitarama, 25 miles southwest of Kigali. Army troops, their morale plummeting, have yet to launch a single counterattack. Despite ongoing cease-fire talks in the capital, the rebels are unlikely to call a halt to the fighting before the government has been routed and the massacres stopped...
...missiles armed with nerve-gas warheads would slam into the tarmac, effectively shutting down operations. At bases like Osan, the huge U.S. air base 25 miles south of Seoul, North Korean commandos would suddenly appear and shoot up the base's preflight briefing room, killing pilots and disrupting the counterattack...
...When we finally got the order to counterattack at 2 p.m., we took lots of casualties from their air force and their naval guns offshore. We remained in that position for six weeks, keeping the enemy contained in the beachhead by attacking every day and every night. Once, near the end, we took the high ground overlooking the beachhead, but the Canadian infantry counterattacked. We were driven away, and that was the end of the operation...